Asakusa 2011-2016: 6 Broadway Japanese Portrait

Asakusa 2011-2016

6 Broadway Japanese Portrait

  • Katsutoshi HATSUZAWA / 2017.5
  • JPY 7,000 / B5 extensional size, softcover, 520 pages
  • bookdesign: Hd LAB

Asakusa, apart from being a historic district of Tokyo, is one that reflects the inimitable character of Japan.
This traditional downtown area holds the classic spirit of the nation, a place still removed from the modernity of the city. Here, in the entanglement of the narrow streets, the roots of the culture are embedded.
The area provides a fascinating glimpse into the contradictory ethos of the people, combining the imagery of post-war nostalgia with the undesciplined rough edges of a township struggling to enter the present day.
It certainly cannot be classified as beautiful yet here lies its charm ― one uniquely Japanese.
(ISBN 9784861105470)

photographer

Katsutoshi Hatsuzawa

http://www.hatsuzawa-studio.net/

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Ishinomaki Hen-ei

Ishinomaki Hen-ei

  • Mamoru MIURA, Shoko HASHIMOTO / 2017.2
  • JPY 2,500 / A4 extensional size, hardcover, 120 pages
  • bookdesign: Jun KATSURAGAWA

Photographing Ishinomaki after the Great East Japan Earthquake. 75 photos, poetry and essay.

What a huge epic-lyric poem, a symphony of photographs and words! This is a record of the illuminations of countless souls, departing from the cruel claw marks in March and arriving to the celebration of the repeated activities between Gaia and human.
– Shohei Nakajyo (French literature)

Photographs intertwine with scenes, and words with photos. Flipping the pages leads you to another side of the world. Then, you will notice that. Being connected to over there is the way of prayer after the disaster.
– Hiroshi Hasegawa (philosopher)
(ISBN 9784861105302)

Table of contents

1  Mierumono to Mienaimono
2  Shigatsu ha…
3  Hikari he
4  Tanagokoro
5  Chinmoku no Taigyo
6  Helpless
7  Inori
8  “Odazumokko” tachi no Furusato
9  karra-n na Warai, Taigi no Nemuri
10  Mirume
11  Shiroi Michi
12  Syaraku – Ware to Nanji no Taiwa no Chihei he
13  Ishi ha Kudakezu, Senkin no Tama wo Tsugu
14  Kamome
15  Kodai kara no Rei ni Kiku
16  Hashi wo Wataru
17  Kurou wo Tomoni
18  Hikari no Sazanami
19  Myouzin-Maru
20  Chikara no Yowaku natta Ten
21  Bi no Yadori
22  Osanago
23  Fukumimi
24  Ryu no Tanjo
25  Hibi no Shinwa
26  Milky Way
27  Hatsuhi
28  Veil
29  Nagagutsu Seven
30  Ki to Matsuri
31  Uta wo Wasurenu
32  Kurashino naka de koso
33  Hi to Hi, Uchi to Soto to
34  Shigusa to Manazashi
35  Gogatsu no Uta wo Matsu
36  Hukaki Sekai yori
37  Wagami Hitotu
38  Baka Shashinka
39  Kasetsu
40  Daichi no Uta
41  Taue Uta ga Kikoeru

Authors

Mamoru MIURA
Born in Ikawa, Akita in 1957. He established Shumpusha Publishing in 1999. He is the author of a company history “Syuppan ha Kaze-makase”, essay “The home of my father” and poetry “chameleon” (Shumpusha Publishing).

Shoko HASHIMOTO
Born in Ishinomaki, Miyagi in 1939. He received the new face award of The Photographic Society of Japan for the photo collection “Goze”(Nora Publishing). He is the author of the photo collection “Ishinomaki 2011.3.27-2014.5.29” and “The Kitakami River New Edition”(Shumpusha Publishing).

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Tone-gawa wo Yuku

Tone-gawa wo Yuku

  • Hiroshi HANAWA / 2016.3
  • JPY 4,800 / A4 size landscape, hardcover, 158 pages
  • bookdesign: Jun KATSURAGAWA

There is a poetry in life – Recording the lives and the landscape of the people living with the Tone River in 20 years from Showa 44 to 64.
150 photos. Also putting a comment on the statement of Yoshiro Ozeki in the photo collection “Kujukurihama” in this book. Yoshiro Ozeki published photo collections, “Kujukurihama” and “Whale dismantling”.
(ISBN 9784861105036)

Author

Hiroshi HANAWA
Born in Iwai, Chiba in 1946. He held a solo exhibition “Otone no Uta” in Chiba City in 1955. In 1956 he published “Tone-gawa sokou 10nen(Tone River Backward Ten Years)” in the January issue of the magazine “Chizyou” (Ie no Hikari Kyoukai). In Heisei six years, he keeps taking many photographs rooted in the area, such as photographing NHK Hi-Vision square “Waga Itoshi no Kuzyukuri Aru Syasinka no 40nen(Kujukuri of my beloved – 40 years of a certain photographer)”.

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Shinpan Kitakami-gawa

Shinpan Kitakami-gawa

  • Shoko HASHIMOTO / 2015.3
  • JPY 3,500 / B5 extensional size, softcover, 224 pages
  • bookdesign: Jun KATSURAGAWA

Ishinomaki city suffered severe damage in the Great East Japan Earthquake. With deep affection and insight, a portrait photographer from Ishinomaki captures the original landscape and the lives of the Showa 30 to 40’s which are now defunct. This new edition adds the information of shooting place, year and month and English translation to the old edition published in 2005.

A recommendation from Kazuhei Tatematsu (writer) “This is a collection of photographs that might be a harvest of recent”.

※Previously published: “Ishinomaki – 2011.3.27-2014.5.29”. Spent three years photographing his hometown, which was transformed by the Great East Japan Earthquake. He captured schools, evacuation centers, temporary housings and the activities of the people who lived there. A diary with 170 black-and-white photographs selected from a vast amount of films.
(ISBN 9784861104411)

Author

Shoko HASHIMOTO
Photographer. Born in Ishinomaki, Miyagi in 1939. Graduated from the Department of Photography in College of Art at Nihon University. He received the new face award of The Photographic Society of Japan for the photo collection “Goze”(Nora Publishing). He is the author of the photo collection “Nishiyama Onsen” (Zen Foto Gallery, 2014) and “Ishinomaki 2011.3.27-2014.5.29”. Recently worked overseas such as France.

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Ishinomaki 2011.3.27-2014.5.29

Ishinomaki 2011.3.27-2014.5.29

  • shoko HASIMOTO / 2014.9
  • JPY 4,500 / B5 extensional size, softcover, 220 pages
  • bookdesign: Jun KATSURAGAWA

“My hometown Ishinomaki became in serious trouble. I don’t know if my parents are safe.”
“I want to record in photos the activities of people who try to get back to their normal lives.” For 4 years after the disaster, he had continued to vigorously photograph his elderly brother’s family, schools, evacuation centers, temporary housings and other places. Memorable places that had been totally changed and faces of people who live there. This is a collection of photographs that continues to question what the disaster brought.

(ISBN 9784861104145)

 

Author

shoko HASIMOTO
Photographer. Born in Ishinomaki, Miyagi in 1939. Graduated from the Department of Photography in College of Art at Nihon University. He received the new face award of The Photographic Society of Japan for the photo collection “Goze”(Nora Publishing). He has photographed Ishinomaki’s landscape for 50 years and published “The Kitakami-gawa”(2005, Shumpusha Publishing). He is the author of the photo collection “Nishiyama Onsen” (Zen Foto Gallery, 2014). Recently he works in overseas such as France.

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Sekai Shashin Kikou: Utsukushii Shizen to Bunka wo Tazunete [Overseas and Domestic Edition]

Sekai Shashin Kikou

Utsukushii Shizen to Bunka wo Tazunete
[Overseas and Domestic Edition]

  • Koji SHIBUYA / 2014.8
  • JPY 3,500 / A4 extensional size, softcover, 256 pages
  • bookdesign: Tamon YAHAGI

480 color photos!

With the theme of “the harmony of beautiful nature and human culture”, Shibuya traveled to scenic spots in Japan and abroad to take photographs. He writes the episodes of photography and emotional experiences with the photographs(all in color) of each location.

(ISBN 9784861104091)

Table of contents

Greece
New zealand
Switzerland
Egypt
Cambodia
America
Peru
Africa
Easter Island & Galapagos Islands
etc., photography places and many others

Author

Koji SHIBUYA
Born in Niigata in 1939. Graduated from Shizuoka University School of Engineering and Electrical Engineering, joined NEC. After retirement, continue lecturer activities aimed at enlightening career development and motivated development. He makes photographic works as life works. His book is “Jyu-jitu! Value Up Life(Fulfilling! Value Up Life)”.

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Anherika no Sentaku

Anherika no Sentaku

  • Hisano MARUOKA / 2012.12
  • JPY 1,800 / B4 size, hardcover, 32 pages
  • bookdesign: Yoko GOTOH

Family matters, also work does. But when are you the No.1 to yourself?

A large-size picture book with rich colors that tells the story of Anjelica’s dream coming true.
(ISBN 9784861103377)

Author

Hisano MARUOKA
Born in Ooita and grew up in Kanagawa. Graduated from the Major of printmaking in the Department of Painting at Tama Art University. She is working extensively mainly on writing and painting. Poems and pictures are series on literary magazine “Wasted Land” (Kouchi Publishing), “12 water stories magazine” (Sunlight Lab). Interviewed in ‘Bungei’ winter 2001 issue (Kawade Shobo Shinsha). In her book Poems “Kojika no Kyusoku(Window of the Fawn)” (WindchimeBooks) and Poetry collection “Kimi ni Shirotumekusa no Kanmuri wo(The crown of white clover to you)”(Shumpu Publishing). Author website is “Write & Draw”.

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Kabocha no Shita de: Uganda Sensou wo Ikiru Kodomotachi

Kabocha no Shita de

Uganda Sensou wo Ikiru Kodomotachi

  • Naoko SAKURAGI (Photography, Text), Ujitaka ITOH (explanation) / 2011.9
  • JPY 1,800 / duodecimo landscape, softcover, 120 pages
  • bookdesign: Tamon YAHAGI

 

In Uganda, hundreds of thousands of people have died  as a result of internecine strifes between peoples and between ethnic groups. This collection of photographs shows children living strongly and energetically in their daily lives, with warfares and a tragic past. There are many color photographs in this book.

[Recommendation] Miyajima Tatsuo (contemporary artist)
Boy soldiers, rape, AIDS. In Uganda, even children are used as tool of war. The photographer stays close to their harsh reality and captures their fullest present, believing in their future…
(ISBN9784861102592)

Author

Naoko SAKURAGI
Photographer. Born in Kochi, Japan in 1977. Graduated from the Faculty of literature at Ritsumeikan University. She visits northern Uganda during the civil war while studying at university and starts taking pictures with the theme of “the possibility of another way of life.” In April 2007, Achiori (northern Uganda) is appointed ambassador for goodwill. NPO corporation (pending) African representative of water. Her website is “Water of Africa”.

Ujitaka ITOH
Born in 1968. literary critic, full-time lecturer in Faculty of literature at Meiji University. His main books are “Kokuhaku no Bungaku(Literature of Confession)”,”Meisaku ha Kakureteiru(Classics are hiding)”(Co-author).

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Kujira Kaitai

Kujira Kaitai

  • Yoshiro KOSEKI / 2011.6
  • JPY 15,000 / A4 size, hardcover with box, 208 pages
  • bookdesign: Makoto WADA

A fisherman waiting for the departure, men cutting down a huge body, historical sites of ancient-style whaling, whale cuisine, a whale exhaling on the beach… Japanese people who eat whales and live with whales. A true documentary by the photographer of “Kujukurihama” by which he got a huge popularity! he have been shooting over 24 years at Wada-ura at Kujukurihamahama (Chiba), Taiji (Wakayama), Ayukawa (Miyagi). 121 monochrome picture.
Japanese library association selection book.
(ISBN 9784861102615)

Author

Yoshiro KOSEKI
Born in 1935, a farmer in Kawabe, Chiba. He received the new face award of The Photographic Society of Japan for the photo collection “Kujukurihama”(mokujisha Publishing). He is the author of “Kujukurihama”(shumpusha publishing) and “Kujukuri ujo” (Tokyo Newspaper Publishing Bureau, 1993).

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Kaichu Kaisei

Kaichu Kaisei

  • Naoki DAIMON / 2006.11
  • JPY 1,800 / A5 size landscape, paperback, 98 pages
  • bookdesign: Tamon YAHAGI

A dramatic feast of vividly colored creatures in the vast ocean. Flip through the pages and you’ll find a world of brilliantly colored fishes. A collection of approximately 150 photographs taken in the Nishi Izu and Nansei Islands.

(ISBN 9784861105401 [2nd printing]9784861100901)

Author

Naoki DAIMON
Born in Esashi, Hokkaido in 1948. In November 1994, he began diving and underwater photography. The 52nd Nikkatsu Photographic Exhibition Encouragement Award, JPS (Japan Photographers Association) Exhibition 4 times, 18th Diver Photo Contest Gold Award, 26th Diving World Photo Contest Grand Prix, Earth Sea Photo Contest 2001 2001 Nature Sector Grand Prix.

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